(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
to be of benefit; to be beneficial; to be useful; to do one good; to be good for one
gently; mildly; leniently; don't be too hard on me (us, them); go easy on me
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
excitement; stimulation; agitation; arousal
comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
one's speciality; one's forte; one's strong point
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
not at all; don't worry about it; forget about it
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
reputation; respectability; honour; honor
to break (into pieces); to be broken; to collapse; to crumble; to become less formal; to throw off reserve
to rally; to make a comeback
cannonball; shot (in the shot put)
to drop; to let fall; to omit
becoming clear; coming to light; being ascertained; being identified; being confirmed
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead
fair attack; fair tactics; straightforward approach; standard procedure; established method
a few hours; several hours; a couple of hours
greeting; a fine thing to say
novel; original; new; innovative
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.)
hello; good day; good afternoon
about when; about what time; how soon
manners; courtesy; etiquette
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
omission; leaving out; abbreviation; abridgment; abridgement
to continue to do; to persist in doing
representation; representative; exemplification; typification; leader; switchboard number
assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
to dry (up); to become parched; to ebb; to recede
strongly; violently; with all one's strength
to crush; to squash; to flatten; to quash (a plan, opposition, etc.); to crush; to suppress
dear (old); good old; longed-for; classic; nostalgic
Hyottoko; comical male character with puckered, skewed mouth; clown; ugly mug; ugly guy
return; coming back; second coming (e.g. of Christ); second advent; reincarnation
occasion; time; circumstances; (in) case (of); when